Alexander Skarsgård

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The sacrifices were of no extension also social. All energy, physically and mentally, went to the preparations and later the filming in England.

- I was a wreck on the weekends .. My dad played in the TV series 'River’ in London at the same time and I met him twice in the three months he was there for that . I was not at the restaurant at eight months, did not drink in eight months and did not really met my friends. But at the same time it was such an incredible project. I saw it as a super exciting opportunity.

The clearest receipt Alexanders dedication is above all the reactions of the opponents who have been around a while and seen colleagues “pro def mood” before. Not least twofold Oscar-winning Christoph Waltz ( ‘Inglorious Bastards’, 'Django Unchained’) - who plays Captain Rom in 'The Legend of Tarzan’ - was impressed by Alexander’s apfelstrudel free living.

- I honestly don’t not know if I would have the stamina to get through Alexander did, he says with typical manly manér when I sit down with him later. I consider myself usually relatively disciplined, but still nothing compared to that. Dedications were quite improbable! And the focus! Over such a long time too. Long before he even started filming. That was unbelievable.

Margot Robbie ('The Wolf of Wall Street’, 'The Big Short’), who plays Jane, says that Alexander’s extreme diet also constituted a grateful tease.

- I was horrible to him, laughing Robbie. To demonstratively eat candy before his eyes and such… He almost had tears in his eyes so then I felt guilty for real. Each time a new filming week began, he would ask: "What did you do this weekend then?” “Oh, it was so fun, we went out, we did this, and then we went …” Then he interrupted always “I do not care what you did - tell me what you ate. Tell me exactly what you ate! "So then I had to go through,” Okay, - I first ate this and then this … “It was as well as food porn for him to just hear about it.

It is not the first time the story of Tarzan told. In fact, few other stories, not even the story of Christian Bale weight loss before 'The Machinist’, has been told more times.

The character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1912. The first novel was called 'Tarzan of the Apes’ and is about the British John Clapton born in Africa and, after the parents died, brought up by apes. Rice Burroughs himself came to write so-so two dozen sequels - but it’s still nothing compared to the extreme exploitation of nature. Movie Database IMDB lists, for example, 200 different movies with Tarzan, from 1918 until today. Then there will be novels, graphic novels and stage productions. Should I even go into Tarzan-like avatars become story library as soon as bottomless.

Alexander Skarsgard was therefore initially skeptical to interpret this character due to it has already been interpreted so many times - but was convinced as soon as he read the script.
 
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- I thought a lot about the thing, admits Alexander. But it was such a very interesting interpretation of an already very famous story. It’s almost like they psychologically have turned the novel backwards, because the novel is about taming the beast, and this in a sense is about to unleash the beast. At the beginning of the film, he has already been in London for nearly a decade with his wife Jane, he drinks tea with the Prime Minister and dresses like a Victorian gentleman. Mentally, he has left the jungle behind; he is almost afraid of it, and above all for what he himself was there. But then Samuel L. Jackson character, George Washington pops up and says: "You have been invited by King Leopold of Belgium to return to Africa.” John refuses at first, but then he says that Leopold, in fact, hold on to colonize and enslave his land and people, so John knows that he must return. As the adventure takes off into the jungle peeled layers of clothing wise and emotionally. It felt very interesting and something I have not really seen before. Large company Warner Brothers knobs film production. Budget is certainly not modest $180 million.

- I actually saw the film yesterday and it was incredible to take part of the end result, says Alexander .. There’s no real animals in the film, but everything is animated. There’s a scene where I was going to visit some lions that I had not seen in ten years: I go down on all four and the lion female we rub our heads against each other. When we were playing it was like a 25-year break dancers from Brixton who played the lion. Wearing a gray pajamas. We met on the set, shook hands and he said: “Ey, mate, how are you?” And then we went directly down on all fours and rubbed us down with each other. It was one of those moments where you felt: “So this is how I earn my living ..”

He laughs.

- I also have a scene against an elephant who is very emotional - and I recorded for a tennis ball that slipped on a rack. So it was pretty cool to see the film when there suddenly was replaced by animals that look so damn realistic.

I read something PR quotes before the movie where you said: “This is about a man who’s holding back and slowly as you peel off the layers, he reverts back to a more animalistic state and lets That side of his personality out” A bit like Alexander Skarsgard at South Stadium / Tele2.

- Yes, you could say that, Alex grins. I am fascinated by the balance that I think we all have. We’re animals - but have also learned to be a little civilized and function in a group with people we do not know. There is no natural flocks; without constellations. I think it is quite interesting how pushing back his animalistic side and what form that takes. Tarzan’s a big entertainment movie, but it’s quite fun when it is not only popcorn but also that there is substance that I genuinely think is psychologically interesting.

How hardcore Hammarby are you really? You know as well as anyone who plays left back?

- I’m not home very often. Last year I was on a match, the year before I was two. I try to time my trips home with Hammarsbys schedule, but often it is so that I can go home at Christmas and during the recess in July. But I follow the games online. I’m a little nervous now, it does not look like that great this year. On the other hand, it is where our whole identity. I started going to South Stadium in the early 90s, when Hammarby was completely useless, a jojo team, so they celebrated after a draw match against a middle team as if they won the national championship.

Have you written anything under a pseudonym in a Hammarby forum sometime?

- Well, it’s happened. of course I have.

Still?

- Yes. I put in comments and such. They run awesome live updates from the games through the website. Damn good, informative, but can really follow. There you can also add comments, so it happens that you throw in a comment when you think it’s time for a change or so.

I interviewed your brother Gustaf to two years ago. He talked a lot about him in recent years attracted little of the idea of doing more hunky lead roles, because he never really had the chance to do it. For you are always a little contrary, it soon became so much focus on your looks and your “Weekly hunk” -aura. Has it been a little reverse for you there, that you felt a particularly strong need to prove yourself as an actor and not just a pretty face?

- Yes. I do not know.

He falls silent.

- Well, that was a bit why I’m stuck here. I had very difficult to get more serious roles in Sweden. I got tired of it. Then it was the right thing to come here and test. And here I have not felt limited. I’ve found pretty cool characters.

Gustav came, incidentally, as a sober alcoholic in the same article. He talked about that he had gone in through the course with you mother My, who also stopped drinking. Given that you’re obviously carries a certain heritage and moving in very party-oriented industry - are you thinking these things?

- Yes. it’s what you do. Of course, with both Mom and my brother. It’s damn inspiring and amazing with their journey. I do drink, as well. Absolutely. And it definitely happens that I drink too much. But that’s probably because. I have not felt that I … I did not drink a drop in eight months when I did Tarzan. Of course, then I go home and get drunk on the South Stadium - but then I disappear again for eight months and do something else. Eating the broccoli. I do not know if it is so healthy balance, but there is some type of balance anyway.

Alexander’s first big Hollywood role was as a soldier Brad “Iceman” Colbert in the television series ‘Generation Kill’ in 2008. The same year he landed a starring role in ‘True Blood’ a vampire drama HBO launched when, as so often called “the golden age of television” (a concept that soon is more trite than Christian Bale’s weight loss in 'the Machinist’) was at its peak. True Blood was a success and Alexander Skarsgård a concept in Hollywood, the world, and not least, Sweden.

The feeling was that a whole generation pop culture feed kids at home now got its first real Hollywood export, this was not a middle-aged Europeans who haft to play Russian villain, but an exciting acting talent that really had the potential to become a world star. When Alexander Skarsgard did True Blood entrance of the Gothic Eric Northman-throne the feeling was clear: here we had indeed a man who carried out his last dog tricks

Subsequently, the career is not necessarily continued leveling the same. Alexander has definitely established himself in Hollywood and starred in a number of fine works, not least Lars von Trier’s suggestive Melancholia (although the Danish dogmatist is not known to attract the masses to the theaters.) But by the side of True Blood, Alexander mostly appeared in a pair of fully or semi-flops ( 'Battleship’, 'Straw Dogs’) and lots of indie films (Disconnect, the Diary of a teenage girl) who had not taken place a lot of noise.

But the title role in 'The Legend of Tarzan’ - and the role of Nicole Kidman’s husband in ‘Big Little Lies’ on the horizon - it feels like fangs fully retired and that Alexander Skarsgård could take the next step.

- I do not really know, himself thinking… I’ve never done anything on that level before, with almost $ 200 million in the budget. It’s absurd. The film I made just before this was 'The Diary of a Teenage girl’ who had type one million in the budget. It is quite fun to go from one to the other, and it is clear that there are huge potential with Tarzan. A small indie film Diary was great fun to play in, and I’m incredibly proud of the movie, but it was not very many who saw it. It is clear that a film like Tarzan is able to reach a larger audience. Since I also know that there are no such thing as any damn guarantees: if it does not work no one will not talk about it two days after it comes out. But I do not think so, really. I got an incredible opportunity, creatively, to be part of this journey these two years and I’ve had a hell fantastic fun. It is so difficult here. I had no idea whether True Blood would be great or not. I’ve been around long enough to know that you can not predict anything. After the exhausting filming of 'The Legend of Tarzan’ wanted Alexander to have a completely new challenge and filmed because crime comedy ‘War on Everyone’ (“I play a corrupt cop in Albuqueruque who blackmails criminals steal their blow, is constantly drunk and whips people up ”), with the premiere scheduled sometime in the fall.
 
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The next really big thing is precisely the television series 'Big Little Lies’, produced by 'Ally McBeal’-creator David E Kelley. No release date has been set, but the seven one hour episodes will appear in 2017.

- There is a mini-series based on the book of the same name and is about families in a rich upper class area of Monterey. They are all children of the age of six who attends the same kindergarten. There is little bullying among children, while the parents are very competitive and successful. When you first meet this family, everything seems perfect, they have two very cute twin boys, lives in a house that cost $ 10 million. The neighbors talk about them as the perfect couple. But then summarizes that they have a pretty intense relationship - and quite violent. Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club) directs all the episodes, so it’s kind of like making a seven hour movie. He is incredible, works a little in the same way as Lars von Trier; natural lighting, handheld camera - and so he shoots in 360. There is no waiting, but once you start shooting film as man to man the scene. It takes 30 seconds for him to film from one direction and then he jumps seamlessly over and run the next shot from a different angle. It is incredibly playful. And to work with Nicole Kidman is ju.. Damn I so impressed with her.

Yes, how did you get the role?

- It’s the same producer who did True Blood, HBO, so I’ve worked with them before. In addition, I also made Generation Kill with this gang. It’s fun to be back.

There have been quieter about you in Sweden for a while. It was such a damn thing about True Blood in the beginning, but now you figure mostly at any party pictures from Way Out West and the annual shaky Youtube movie of Hammarby supporters. It feels like you get further away from us.

- Yes, but it’s also … I work mostly with indie films and they have not received distribution in Sweden. I do not 'The East’, 'Disconnect’ or 'What Maisie Knew’ even went to the movies in Sweden. And I do not go home and do interviews unless I have something to do interviews for. And when none of those films received distribution in Sweden, I keep low. It’s fun to do interviews when you have something to talk about that now, I’m excited about Tarzan, and I was excited about those films too, but there was no one who wanted to talk to me then.

Director David Yates (Harry Potter) said that the fact that you are a Swedish actress who made a career in the United States were largely in that you got the role. Your “wonderful quality of not quite Belonging to one or the other”.

Does he have a point or is it just advanced director mumbo jumbo?

- There’s something in that, of course, in that I have been here for twelve years. But when I go home to the family at Söder it is still .. I still say “go home”. I feel in my heart that it is my home. While I feel in many ways that the United States is my home too, I have been here for over a decade. I end up well somewhere in between. In Atlantic. <<
 
Thanks, a_sussan, for the translation!:smile:

From ASN:

Alex and Michael Peña at the Kiehls Club during the 2016 Deauville American Film Festival - 09/07/16, France.

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Thanks, a_sussan, for the translation!:smile:
Alex and Michael Peña at the Kiehls Club during the 2016 Deauville American Film Festival - 09/07/16, France.

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#MichaelPena #AlexanderSkarsgard ©AnthonyGhnassia/ #VisionbyAG for #kiehlsclub

-anthonyghnassia instagram

The Michael/Alex handholding: If Alex and Alexa are done, I'm glad to see that Alex has moved on, though I wonder if Michael's wife knows about this! :p
And we're never going to see the end of the Tarzan promo clothes, are we?
I do like him with the short hair and all scruffy.
 
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From The Library:

Fan and event photos (plus a great video!) of Alex, Michael Peña and John Michael McDonagh promoting War on Everyone at the Deauville American Film Festival (September 8, 2016, France).

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#MichaelPena et AlexanderSkarsgård à @DeauvilleUS pour présenter #WarOnEveryone

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“#Deauville2016 Photo call WAR ON EVERYONE avec Alexander Skarsgard x John Michael McDonagh x Michael Pena.”

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“#Deauville2016 #Photocall Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Peña and John Michael McDonagh pour WAR ON EVERYONE #Première.”

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“Alexander Skarsgård @deauvilleus #deauville #festival.”

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“Oh.my...god. Alexander Skarsgård.”

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conférence de presse #waroneveryone #JohnMichaelMcDonagh #alexanderskarsgard @realmichaelpena @DeauvilleUS

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conférence de presse #waroneveryone
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Conférence de presse #waroneveryone #AlexanderSkarsgard #MichaelPena

Press #waroneveryone #AlexanderSkarsgard #MichaelPena Conference

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#Deauville2016 Conférence de #WarOnEveryone en présence d' #AlexanderSkarsgard, #MichaelPeña & #JohnMichaelMcDonagh

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Conférence de presse #Audessusdeslois de #McDonagh avec #AlexanderSkarsgaard et #MichaelPena (seul intérêt du film)

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Miiiiiiiiiiiiiihhh !! Alexander Skarsgard (True Blood) #Deauville2016

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Funny guys. #WarOnEveryone #Deauville2016

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“#Deauville2016 Photo call WAR ON EVERYONE avec Alexander Skarsgard…”

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^yw!

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“I warn you, my interview of Alexander Skarsgård for @BelaRuche is away. Very far.”

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“My reboot of Dalton with Michael Peña and Alexander Skarsgard is going well! #WarOnEveryone # Deauville2016.”

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“Barred interview with Alexander Skarsgård! #WaronEveryone @DeauvilleUS #AlexanderSkarsgard.”

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